We’ve already seen her on the severed floor…

We already saw Helena on the severed floor.

I was rewatching S1 and caught this —

When Helly hangs herself, the elevator goes all the way up and opens at the entrance. Helena wakes up and struggles. The doors slide closed as no one is monitoring the entryway.

In the next scene when Mark saves Helly/Helena in the elevator, she drops to the floor and clearly wakes up. She isn’t gasping anymore. Grainer forces Mark into the elevator, ushering him away as quick as possible, as Helly/Helena watches on.

Now note that before Helly comes back after the suicide attempt, Milkshake implies to Mark that the Helly that woke up that he rescued was actually Helena. He says that Mark should greet Helly kindly bc it would be the first conscious experience Helly has after the attempt. From the script itself:

Milchick: She was in Outie form at the time she woke up. Milchick: So, this will be Innie Helly’s first conscious experience since the hanging.

He is not lying, because when Helly wakes up in the elevator when she is to return to work, she is gasping for air. Remember, the last time we saw Helena she is dazed on the floor, but not gasping. She had regained her senses.

TLDR: We already saw Helena in the severed floor. In fact she probably got the idea to go down there as her outtie from the suicide attempt.

This is important as I keep seeing people saying that “there’s no way a severed person can go on the severed floor without the chip triggering.” This is patently false because we’ve already seen an outtie on the floor.